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星期日, 2月 08, 2015

~~ flying away 2/08/2015 01:05:00 上午 ~~

Box up from office...

Finally, last day of work to start my NPL instead of really leaving. The last day was final clearing of bugs before leaving. Manage to solve the 3 bugs before 3pm after the company CNY celebration lunch. Started cleaning up and shredding all the unused documents. Wow another 3 years plus worth of material. Again I asked myself why is there so many stuffs in the end, they all end up in the trash can.

Plans for travelling this coming 3 months. Finally I see a glimpse of light but still blurry as I am tired from all the spring cleaning. Have been doing them I think from December onwards and it is still an unfinished task!

Have to stop and restart the planning and packing! Very vital.

Things to plan for the trip:
1. Things to do in London, Oxford
2. Transport means within London

Skyhawk run

I come to realise on the bus journey back. Not just i have squander my money, time was another that i spend without much thinking!

Glad went on the skyhawk no matter what. Hotel 100 bucks for 1 person. It is rhe priceless experience since i was so last minute.

Kuching or muar really need to review and see i have the time. Opportunity cost.
All except one small package has been received. One is vpost which very easily miss out. All in but not tried. Not even my filters. Need do the following

Day 0 and 1 - 31 12 2014 , 1 1 2015
Fly out from sg to dps at 8pm
Very rush as i went back office for half day before heading to clementi maybank. Head to the airport by train. Reached at 7pm late by 30min. Airasia less than half full probably due to the accident. Reach and was transfer to the snorkeling place manjangan island. Lucky heed to ken advise to eat less breakfast. Didn't puke that much.

Then we went to hotel catimor where we checkin to go ijen. Quite a far ride to java.

Day 2 - 2 1 2015
Woke up in the morning to start hiking. As it was 1 hr behind bali or sg time. Nevertheless we are still late by an hr. Coz they overslept. Glad i brought my goggles. The fumes at ijen crater was irritating.

Unable to focus my lens. Should have brought my standing tripod. To have better view and focus. Then we came out, jasmine asthma attack a little. But all gd. We went out and started field cooking. Then we ate mee then go down.

We changed the itinerary by going back to bath first. Then go to the waterfall and hot spring bath which cost only 8000 rp i think. Then we went back hotel for a gd full sleep before we head out to noars white water rafting.

Day 3 3 3 2015
It is one of the best i did. With enuff water and even have a waterfall with it.

Next we continue on a change itinerary to go to madakaripura waterfall for a visit before driving up to 2000m to bromo area.

Day 4 - 4 1 2015
We woke up in the morning 3am to be driven up in 4wd. Too many people to see the sunrise. We then head down to the savanna to go up the crater. I decided not go further up like what jasmine and daniel did. Not sure why. Even i can get a higher view for better photos. Perhaps i think it is unsafe or i am too disturbed with the amount of trash around the area.

Day 5 5 1 2015
12 hrs drive from bromo back to kuta bali. Very far. Reach at 3am slept to 9am. Kuta beach. Too lazy to wake up in the morning to go beach and view. Did some food shopping and we are back home.

Mistakes...

Finally I have start serious planning for my backpacking trip 2015.

I come to realise that I have not put in the required amount of consideration and time to the planning. Falling very short.

Looking back at my money spending, I should be more prudent and have it well spend. The dating thing really cost me a bomb especially the most high cost one doesn't means good service. My first date was great. But all subsequent ones are not really my type. Whereas the online one which costs much much lesser was better in my opinion.

I also went to see the hair doctor at ION. Not cheap. 500 bucks with consultation. I should have tried the local clinic will be much cheaper. I doubt I will follow up with them.

After reviewing Andrew's online video on planning and going for trip, the most important is to ask why go for the trip. What is the objective? What do I want to achieve?

As usual the overconfidence got into me, I did spring cleaning and planning together last minute. Not going to work. Plus I stay have a trip tomorrow to Bali and another 2 days to Malacca. Glad I crapped the Ice Climb to Langtang. Really have no bandwidth.

I guess I didn't consider the magnitude of the trip i'm embarking on. Solo trek trip. Means every single thing will be self sufficient. No like the past trip I went on with guide. Because now I am the guide, the cook, the porter, and the participant!

Too much over spending as well as I don't calculate my spending whether my saving can afford it. Coming all together are the following which I forget to say NO to. Which XT shared with me the warren buffet on focusing. I should really do so.

The rest will be my camping gears but I know I will still use them as I wish to go a 6500m peak soon.
Going to buy a simple shovel for now.

Feeling quite moody as going to leave, plus so much uncertainties, still couldn't find my 2FA dongles. Need 20 bucks for replacement, still not clearing my home well, should shipped to vpost as got more discounts by citibank cards etc...

Jiayou... your blues will be soon over. After rain then will have rainbow! Press on!

Renovaid!

Finally! Empty and moved the huge wardrobe to the side. Now walking to the master bedroom bathroom is straight path!

The floor is sooo black and dusty! So many years of dirt. Too tired to clean thoroughly. Only sweep and wet cloth wiped.

Still have a lot of stuffs to clear. Wow her stuff is like 37 years of stuff! Plus my 30 years of stuff. Later kitchen will be 30 years of stuffs if they moved in since i was born.

Insane.

The amount of paper bags is crazy. The packaging that comes with the stuff we bought. Stuff and stuff... really come to realise all these are pointless and we can't bring to our death bed. Why do we accumulate them...?

This is only tip of the iceberg as i have the kitchen, second room plus the study area.
Need to clear faster as i still have planning trip and buying stuff oopss... Pending

One week past...

Finally one week has past, still feeling awkward when someone you was close to suddenly ignore you.

Well at least I felt much better. Will get better soon!

Went to had a dinner with my sister and her swiss husband. Well as thou i will be the one footing the bill as it is not nice for her friend to do so. Simply chucking 100 bucks and just running off is just bad. Well is expensive 500bucks. With her 100 bucks offset. I still feel a pinch.

I just think that i wont be like her. If you want to organise and treat your friends dinner you should. Plain stingy and living in own world. Sorry for the rant. But i just need to vent.

Meetup with quite a handful of people :) with TLC, and others. Thru the main organiser I found out that one friend whom i just met barely had a bad accident. Fell from 15m wall at onsight... omg luckily no head spinal injuries. Just jaw, right hand and leg hurt. Recovery will be long 1 year min.

Really need to be very careful as he was a frequent climber.

As for the heart, seems like she had gone colder after the gift to me. Is it over already? Cause i was hesitant? Well I really have no idea and just follow the flow and take it as stride.

Another problem coming home too when she even return for awhile. Seeing the fb messages are enuff to piss me off. But i kind of bochup attitude already as i just felt there are ao many things that i haven't do yet.

Agung...

Agung... so many unhappy incidents but good learning lessons. 1st trek too slow overconfidence nearly cost my life! Wind was so strong that blown me rolling over! About 5m sliding. Glad i stop in time only lost the len cap and the focusing spolit. Not my life! Omg! Grateful! Secondly, i shouldn't hav chiong out in the end got lost and lost my 200 bucks sunglasses... well sad but it's ok. Even spend so much of calls. Bills will be insane! Glad i got in flight still so go home and have a bath and restart! :)

Climbed Gunung Agung, 3,031m! Wasn't able to summit as the wind was simply too strong! The wind even caused me to fall and stumble down for couple of seconds! So thankful that I was stopped by force of nature. Nevertheless, the experience was great to have! We started at 12am via the Besakih route. Thou it led to summit it was a much tougher route than I expected. We should had started at 11am to ensure more time. Plus being guideless most of the time, it was a great experience to venture on but would not recommended to do so as I had hard time findingroute up and was lost in the village when I exited the mountain for 2 hours as I didn't take more details into the briefing email. Grateful that the mountain gave me the test first then the lesson thereafter to comprehend!

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a
lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches
you a lesson.”
~ Tom Bodett